Posted on 09/29/2011 8:33:03 PM PDT by thouworm
State Gets $5 Mil Bonus For Food Stamp Sign Up
09/29/2011
In its quest to promote taxpayer-funded entitlement programs, the Obama Administration has actually rewarded one state with a $5 million bonus for its efficiency in adding food-stamp recipients to already bulging rolls.
It’s part of the administration’s campaign to eradicate “food insecure households” by improving access and increasing participation in the government’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Incidentally, the program was recently changed to SNAP to eliminate the stigma that comes with a name like food stamps.
Just a few months ago the federal agency that administers the program, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), launched a multi-million-dollar initiative to recruit more food-stamp participants even though the number of recipients has skyrocketed in the last few years.
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This week Oregon officials bragged that the USDA has given the state $5 million in “performance bonuses” for ensuring that people eligible for food benefits receive them and for its “swift processing of applications.” The money comes on the heels of a separate $1.5 million award from the feds for making “accurate payments of food stamp benefits to clients.” So welfare recipients are clients?
It marks the fifth consecutive year that Oregon has been “recognized” by the federal government for “exceptional administration” of the entitlement program, according to the announcement posted on the state’s Department of Human Services web site. The state official who runs SNAP assures that her staff will “continue working very hard to exceed expectations” so that Oregonians can “put healthy foods on their table quickly.”
Could this be why the number of food-stamp beneficiaries in Oregon has increased dramatically in the last few years? Since 2008 the state has seen a 60% boost in the number of food-stamp recipients, which means that more than 780,000 people (one out of five Oregonians) get groceries compliments of Uncle Sam.
As if this weren’t bad enough, the feds are also giving the state a two-year grant to test an “innovative approach” to the food-stamp “client eligibility review process.” This will make it even easier for people to get food stamps because it grants state officials a waiver that allows them to grant the benefit without interviewing the candidate.
I want a free gun. Where do I apply?
See the BATFE... I hear they are handing them out. They also have a waiver from the feds. No questions asked. LOL
“Because of these new “innovative approaches,” people in prison are getting unemployment checks.”
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The prison’s “client eligibility review process” failed.
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A legislative audit released Tuesday says around $150,000 in benefits were paid over the last three years on behalf of claimants who were either in prison or jail.
Auditors had WorkForce West Virginia check for the Social Security numbers of all inmates during that time period. The agency oversees unemployment compensation, and found it had paid 700 weeks’ worth of benefits on behalf of at least 26 inmates.
In one case, the benefits ran for a total of two and a half years.
sickening OREGON Ping
And, Oregon continues to economically circle the toilet....and the Democrats keep spending....
Food stamps are a farm subsidy too.
My father, before he passed away in 2008, owned his own home and made about $1,900 per month through a combination of pension and Social Security.
He was eligible for food stamps, though he never took them up on the offer.
He was in Washington State.......to be honest, I don’t know what the qualification numbers are in Oregon. But, if he was eligible (widower, owned his own home, and making a little less than $23K per year), I’d think there’s a possibility you may be as well.
I forgot to mention, when I said he owned his own home, he had no mortgage. He’d paid it off entirely in 1976. So it was free and clear.
We just got a flyer announcing a pizza parlor now accepting EBT cards.
Soooo, the gov. is now buying pizzas for the folk. Of course I have to pay for mine (and part of theirs).
The local drug store accepts them also.
Like methadone to a junkie get them hooked and they’re yours to do your bidding. Zero and his clown posse are ratcheting it up and putting thier destroy plan in high gear
I remember seeing a billboard somewhere advertising for food stamps. The catch line was something like don’t miss out.
This was in the 90’s.
Saw the guy in front of me buy his breakfast at the Mickey D drive-thru with an EBT card from is not so bad looking ride.
Meanwhile my 87 year old mother falls in the same category as others mentioned in this thread; $1300 SS and pension but owns a house in (upstate) NY and not eligible.
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